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Bingbot appears to be crawling a large site extremely frequently?
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Hi All! What constitutes a normal crawl rate for daily bingbot server requests for large sites? Are any of you noticing spikes in Bingbot crawl activity?
I did find a "mildly" useful thread at Black Hat World containing this quote: "The reason BingBot seems to be terrorizing your site is because of your site's architecture; it has to be misaligned. If you are like most people, you paid no attention to setting up your website to avoid this glitch. In the article referenced by Oxonbeef, the author's issue was that he was engaging in dynamic linking, which pretty much put the BingBot in a constant loop.
You may have the same type or similar issue particularly if you set up a WP blog without setting the parameters for noindex from the get go."
However, my gut instinct says this isn't it and that it's more likely that someone or something is spoofing bingbot.
I'd love to hear what you guys think!
Dana
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Thanks Lesley. Yes, I agree. I think the only way we are going to get a definitive answer is to look at the logs. We are working on getting access.
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I have recently had Bingbot crawl a site until it almost locked the database up, so it is possible. If you have doubts whether it is Bing bot or not, take to the logs and start extracting the ip addresses. You can verify them here, http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
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